poverty is it really bad

Poverty Reflection
When I saw the statistics the first time I was blown away, at how many people today in the world live in poverty even in North America. It only seems to be located in one area the most: the southern part of the states where most black and Latino children live in poverty. Nationwide in the US 17% of all children live in poverty which to me is unbelievable. Thanks to our so called superior economy governments can’t even afford having housing, food, and water for these children. I can’t believe that this is happening in the most powerful country in the world.
Now onto Canada famous for its forests and animals, who knew that it is also famous for poverty. In Canada alone across the whole country 15% of children are living under the poverty line that is 1.2 million children or 1 in every 6 children. In 2005 residents of Canada have been using the food bank as a source of food for their 18th year, talk about a long time. Man even in our own country is just as bad as the US. Now to the global picture this wouldn’t be good.Ah the global picture how I wish that there was no poverty in it sadly there is. 600 million children live in absolute poverty if you think that is little think about that is 1 10th of the world’s population and 800 million people go to bed hungry, wow that’s a lot of people! Most of these people live in developing struggling to buy food, water, housing, and schools for these people. 11 million children die before their fifth birthday that is 30 000 per day. According to the Worldwatch Institute $17 billion in Europe alone go in pet food, we need $19 billion that amount of money could stop world hunger and poverty. Wow I can’t this is happening around the and there is something we can do, together we can stop this issue.